Creative Director

Mobile games dominator Gameloft, worldwide publisher of mobile and social games, is looking for

a talentedCreative Director to start a new Studio in Seattle!

Our new Seattle studio is looking for the right Creative Director to create top quality games and mentor other designers for exciting new and live mobile game titles! The right candidate will have a notable background in social and mobile games. This is a wonderful opportunity for a current Lead or Senior designer with management experience, and the role has future Director of Design potential as the studio and teams grow in size.

Responsibilities:

Under the responsibility of the US Creative Director and Seattle Studio Manager, our Creative Director will:

Design creative, exciting and fresh gameplay and content for original and live games

Establish and drive a dynamic creative vision

Lead, manage and mentor our talented game design team members

Define UI flow, gameplay systems, and live operations events

Implement game dynamics, including tuning and balancing

Analyze player data, identifying and resolving gameplay issues

Drive player satisfaction through quality control, community engagement, and usability testing

Complete benchmarking & competition research

Communicate with production to ensure appropriate and effective scheduling

Collaborate with design teams to produce innovative ideas for new concepts and existing design issues

Communicate with development teams and produce quality design documentation to ensure your creative vision is fulfilled

Qualifications:

5+ years of professional game design experience including lead or management role and mobile freemium game design xp

The opportunity to establish the studio culture you feel best meets the needs of the employees and the company at large

International environment including daily contact with other countries & cultures

Challenging and rewarding work on the next great frontiers in games

Opportunity to create diverse licensed and original IP games with exceptionally broad distribution

A leading global publisher of digital and social games, Gameloft has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple® iOS and Android® devices), set top box, connected TVs and consoles. Gameloft partners with leading international brands such as UNO®, Spider-Man®, James Cameron’s Avatar™, Ferrari® and Sonic Unleashed®. Gameloft also operates its own established franchises, such as Real Football, Asphalt™, Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus and N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance®. Gameloft is present in all continents, distributes its games in 100 countries and employs over 6,000 developers. Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN: FR0000079600, Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA).